Overview

- Aiguille de Leisasse or Lesache - 3.014 m -

Situated on the border ridge between the Gran San Bernardo pass (2.469m) and the Grand Golliaz (aka Golliat) (3.237m), the highest summit before the Mont Blanc Group. Famous ski-mountaneering goal with a good hiking possibility along its Eastern side. Wonderful panorama over Mont Dolent, Tour Noire, Aiguille de l'Argentière, Swiss Val Ferret, Grand Combin, Mont Vélan and Mont Gèle.

Getting There

From Switzerland: through the Grand St. Bernard Tunnel or the homonym pass.

From France: through Mont Blanc Tunnel or Petit St. Bernard Pass. It isn't necessary to enter in motorway A5, you can drive through SS.26 Aosta direction.

BY PLANE:

Aeroporto Internazionale "Corrado Gex" Saint Christophe (Aosta).

Itinerary

From Aosta (583m) along the SS n° 27 of Gran San Bernardo, and, after passing Gignod (988m), Etroubles (1.264m), and Saint Oyen (1.373m) leaving to the left the road to the Tunnel, go toward Saint Rhémy en Bosses (1.632m) along the valley leading to the Pass. After many hairpin bends you get the Pra di Arc Pasture (1.992m) where you start, on foot, the climb to the Aiguille de Leisasse.

Route

From the hairpin (2.079m), west of Pra di Arc Pasture (1.992m) follow the stream on the bottom of the valley and, after passing some ruins, follow a secondary small valley ending with a debris channel leading to the Colle del Fourchon. After crossing the Summits 2.833-2.880-2.908 you get the aerial and panoramic summit (3h'00).